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POOH: I am so proud,
If I allowed
My family pride
To be my guide,
I'd volunteer
To quit this sphere,
Instead of you,
In a minute or two.
But fam'ly pride
Must be denied,
And set aside,
And mortified,
And mortified.

KOKO: My brain it teems
With endless schemes,
Both good and new,
For Titipu,
For Titipu;
But if I flit,
The benefit
That I'd diffuse
The town would lose!
Now ev'ry man
To aid his clan
Should plot and plan
As best he can.

PISH: I heard one day
A gentleman say
That criminals who
Are cut in two
Can hardly feel
The fatal steel,
And so are slain, are slain
Without much pain.
If this is true,
It's jolly for you;
Your courage screw
To bid us adieu.

POOH: I am so proud (&c.)
KOKO: My brain it teems (&c.)
PISH: I heard one day
A gentleman say
That criminals who
Are cut in two
Can hardly feel
The fatal steel,
And so are slain, are slain
Without much pain.
If this is true,
It's jolly for you;
Your courage screw
To bid us adieu.

KOKO: And so,
Although
I'm ready to go,
Yet recollect
'Twere disrespect
Did I neglect
To thus effect
This aim direct,
So I object.

POOH: And so,
Although
I wish to go,
And greatly pine
To brightly shine,
And take the line
Of a hero fine,
With grief condign
I must decline.

PISH: And go
And show
Both friend and foe
How much you dare
I'm quite aware
It's your affair,
Yet I declare
I'd take your share,
But I don't much care.

I'd take your share,
But I don't much care.
I'd take your share,
But I don't much care.
I'd take your share,
But I don't much care, much care,
I don't much care,
I don't much care.

ALL: To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

A dull, dark dock,
A lifelong lock,
A short, sharp shock,
A big black block!

To sit in solemn silence
In a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

By Gilbert and Sullivan
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The Mikado Act 1 No. 10
Lyrics
Pish-Tush
Ko-Ko
Pooh-Bah
Piano (RH)
Piano (LH)